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Hi All,
Bought a new PC for the parents after my long trusted XP box died finally. All I can say is "Yuck!" a start button that takes you to metro? no start Menu, I get the impression that its all for the Surface / Windows phone and shoe horned on to a desktop. The only thing is the speed at which it boots (probably because there is nothing on it at the moment!). Well that's 20+ years of familiarity down the drain, trying to get Security Essential's to find Bit Defender is in place already took a little while to figure out. Can anybody tell me why you need a touch screen layout on a desktop machine? Vista was a little odd compared to this Elephant! 
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You're a bit late on this discussion! Install a start button (classic shell, I think), it will be far more familiar then. Oh, and dissociate all your files with metro apps.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Install a start button, interesting... can you point me to a link, please...?
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Mmmm... saw that on Saturday I was looking at it thinking am I creating a backdoor here, will that cause parents to be bombarded with more spam than they were getting already (my Dad had the habit of putting his E-mail on everything, just maybe...)
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Just upgrade it to Windows 7! 
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Too bad I haven't got downgrade rights... 7 worked
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It boots ever so slightly faster though right? Right?
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Not really, credit where it's due - its bloody quick.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I was thinking it was due to their being nothing on it...
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Well there's heaps on mine, and it's ready to log in less than 5 seconds after leaving BIOS from reboot and instantly when opening the lid on laptop.
I think they've done quite a lot of work in this area - probably delayed start of services and such.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I don't think Windows 8 really shuts down unless you tell it to specifically, I've seen issues with people being confused by a long uptime (in sysinfo) after starting up, shutdown in Windows 8 is basically a glorified hibernate.
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*patpat*
It's a full screen start menu, honey!
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If your parents' eyes aren't eagle quality then it would make sense to train them to use the included Metro e-mail client, Metro IE, Skype, etc. because these use human grade typhography.
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Ooh heck, it took me years to train them to click start! 
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Suck it up. We don't live in an XP world anymore.
I know your parents will resist the change, as you seem to be doing.
I accepted the change when W8 first came out and learned how to navigate this new landscape. Now I am actually changing my file type preferences to Metro (I know I shouldn't call them that) style apps because I am used to the presentation and old school apps seem so 20th Century. Kind of like when windows apps started to replace DOS apps.
Are you one of the people who prefer DOS apps styling? 
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I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
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Try Classic Shell[^]. It gives you a start menu (like Win7), and can replace the start button.
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Always paranoid about third party additions, mind you others have recommended it looks like I might give it ago...
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I have no problems with it. There is a very active community for it here[^].
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That was my first reaction. Then I cleaned up the start screen, pinned a lot of things to the task bar and found I actually liked it. My biggest beef is the loss of Aero, which makes the windows look really clunky.
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The worst part of censhorship is ■■■■■■■■■■■
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That is a load of B****cks
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